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A utopia of servility: Amnesty from logic

The Aug. 7 letter to the editor Mr. Gene Davidson concerning the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill contains so much logical confusion that it would take a tome the size of Tolstoy’s War and Peace to address it adequately.

To begin, the bill was not strongly bipartisan but was bitterly contested, during the course of which disputations our considerably less-than-solonian Tennessee senators wretchedly capitulated to the business lobbies and to the Republican establishment and shamefully betrayed their constituents.

That Congressional Budget Office report which Mr. Davidson adduces also declares that upon passage of the bill wages will stagnate or actually decrease for at least two years. This in in accord with the law of labor availability and wages, one of those nasty facts which always confound the liberals’ roseate, though totally unrealistic, visions for the country’s welfare. This law, as undeniable as is the law of gravity, declares that as the number of laborers for a task increases, the wages decline. The CBO’s predicted deficit reduction is based upon wages’ remaining constant or increasing, in contradistinction to this iron law of economics. Consequently, that forecast is highly dubious at best. This law also explains big business, Chamber of Commerce, and financial establishment support for the bill: lower wages resulting from sudden mass immigration translates into high profits; damn the social and economic consequences for the working and middle class!

The projected increase in Social Security revenues does not take into account that these formerly illegal aliens will be eligible to draw Social Security benefits. The conservatively estimated 11 million of them and the even-more-conservatively estimated 20 million more who will soon thereafter arrive because of chain immigration will inexorably consume that $300 billion in short order.

Now for another of those ugly facts, which altogether a bane to the Progressives, are nevertheless undeniable and inexorably doom their utopian fantasies to utter failure. The fact is that Americans owe their blessed position, relative to other nations’ citizens, to our Founding Fathers’ bequeathing to succeeding generations a vast, empty country with a short supply of labor and an ample supply of land that made a middle class existence readily available. In the 1750s Benjamin Franklin wrote about the Old World, in contrast to the high wage, low cost New World:

“In countries fully settled…those who cannot get land must labor for others that have it; when laborers are plenty, their wages will be low; by low wages a family is supported with difficulty; this difficulty deters many from marriage, who therefore long continue servants and single.”

Therefore, Franklin vehemently advocated restricting immigration to preserve Americans’ economic well-being. Franklin’s prescience is demonstrated by the precipitate contemporary decline in marriage among the working class because of low wage pressure from both excessive legal and illegal immigration.

To Mr. Davidson and his ilk; to the business elements and its allies in the Republican Party seeking the cheapest possible labor costs by any means whatsoever, regardless of the social costs; to the Democratic Party who, quite logically, sees this immigrant tsunami as permanent, absolutely reliable, Democratic voting bloc; and to the projected veritable multitude of additional federal bureaucrats who will be absolutely essential for mismanaging this result of gargantuan government misrule, Franklin’s vision of self-governing, economically self-sufficient Americans is anathema. In contrast, a nation of Latin American-style debt peonage, keeping its citizens single and servile, is their utopia.

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